CLASS - X

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Class X – Telugu (First Language)

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Class X – Telugu – For Other Media (Second Language)

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Class X – Urdu (First Language)

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Class X – Urdu (Second Language)

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Class X – Hindi (First Language)

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Class X – Hindi (Second Language)

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 Class X – English

Unit. Theme and Lessons as per Activity / project based

Remarks
No. syllabus lessons
1 Personality Development
A) Attitude is Altitude
B) Every Success Story is also a
Story of Great Failures
C) I will Do It
2 Wit and Humour Wit and Humour
A) The Dear Departed I A) The Dear Departed 1
B) The Dear Departed II B) The Dear Departed 2
C) The Brave Potter C) The Brave Potter
3 Human Relations
A) The Journey
B) Another Woman
C) The Never Never Nest
4 Films and Theatre Films and Theatre
A) Rendezvous with Ray A) Rendezvous with Ray
B) Maya Bazaar B) Maya Bazaar
C) A Tribute C) A Tribute
5 Social Issues
A) The Storeyed House 1
B) The Storeyed House 2
C) Abandoned
6 Biodiversity
A) Environment
B) Or Will the Dreamer Wake
7 Nation and Diversity
A) My Childhood
B) A Plea for India
C) Unity in Diversity
8 Human Rights
A) Jamaican Fragment
B) Once Upon a Time
C) What is My Name?

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 Class X – Mathematics
Sl. Name of the Activity / project based
Topics in the syllabus
No. chapter lessons
1) Division Algorithm
2) Euclid’s Algorithm
3) Fundamental Theorem of
Arithmetic
1 Real Numbers -
4) Rational Numbers And Their
Decimal Expansions
5) Irrational Numbers
6) Logarithms
1) Roster Form and Set Builder
Form
2) Empty set, Universal set and
subset
2 Sets 3) Basic operations on sets -
4) Venn diagrams
5) Equal sets
6) Finite & infinite sets, cardinality
of a finite set
1) Degree, zero, value of a 1) Division Algorithm for
polynomial polynomials
2) Graphical representation of a
quadratic polynomial
3 Polynomials
3) Relationship between zeroes
and coefficients of a polynomial
4) Division Algorithm for
polynomials

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Topics in the syllabus
No. chapter lessons
1) Graphical Method 1) Equations reducible to
linear equations
2) Relationship between
coefficients and nature of
Linear Equations in equations
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two variables 3) Substitution method
4) Elimination method
5) Equations reducible to linear
equations
1) Quadratic equation 1) Situational problems
based on equations
2) Solution by Factorization reducible to Quadratic
3) Solution by completing the Equations
5 Quadratic Equations
square 2) Solution by
4) Nature of roots completing the square

1) What is an arithmetic 1) Applications in

progression? solving daily life
2) nth term of AP problems based on
3) Sum of ‘n’ terms of AP sum to ‘n’ terms
6 Progressions 4) What is GP? nth term of GP
2) What is GP? nth term
of GP

1) Distance between two points 1) Area of triangle and

2) Section Formula- Points of Area of triangle using

Co-ordinate trisection, centroid Heron’s formula

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Geometry 3) Area of triangle
4) Slope of a line

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No. chapter lessons
1) Similar Triangles 1) Area of Similar
2) Basic Proportionality theorem Triangles
and converse 2) Converse of
3) Criteria for Similarity of Pythagoras Theorem
Similar Triangles triangles 3) Construction of
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4) Area of Similar Triangles Similar Triangle with
5) Pythagoras Theorem & improper and Mixed
Converse of Pythagoras Fractions
Theorem

1) Tangents of a circle 1) Area of Segment of a

2) Finding Length of a Tangent Circle (Minor & Major
3) Number of Tangents to a circle Segments)
Tangents and
9 4) Area of Segment of a Circle
Secants to Circles (Minor & Major Segments)

1) Surface Area and Volume of 1) Conversion of Solids

Solid Figures from one shape to the
2) Surface Area of Combination of another
Solids
3) Volume of Combination of
10 Mensuration Solids
4) Conversion of Solids from one
shape to the another

1) Trigonometric Ratios 1) Motivate the ratios

2) Values of Trigonometric Ratios defined at 00 and 900
for specific Angles 2) Trigonometric Ratios
11 Trigonometry 3) Trigonometric Ratios of of Complementary
Complementary Angles Angles
4) Trigonometric Identities
1) Problems with one triangle 1) Complementary
Applications of
12 2) Problems with two triangles problems are not to be
Trigonometry
given
1) Probability-Mutually Exclusive
Events
2) Complementary Events and
13 Probability probability -
3) Deck of Cards and probability
4) Applications of probability

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Topics in the syllabus
No. chapter lessons
1) Mean – Direct Method 1) Mean by Step
- Assumed mean method deviation Method
- Step deviation Method 2) Graph of Ogive
14 Statistics 2) Median Curve (more than
3) Mode type)
4) Graph of Ogive Curves(less than
type and more than type)

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 Class X – Physical Science

Sl. Name of the Activity / project based

Topics in the syllabus
No chapter lessons
· Introduction
· Normal to the curved surface
· Spherical mirrors
· Convex
· conclave mirrors
· Pole
REFLECTION · Focus
OF LIGHT AT · Centre of curvature
1 -
CURVED · principle axis
SURFACES · Redias of curvature
· Focal length
· Images formed by spherical mirrors
· Ray diagrams for spherical mirrors
· Formula for spherical mirrors – sign
convention
· Application of reflection - Solar Cooker
· Introduction
· Some daily life examples of chemical
reactions
· Chemical equations – writing chemical
equations
CHEMICAL · skeletal chemical equations
2 -
EQUATIONS · balancing chemical equations
· Writing symbols of physical states
· Heat changes
· gas evolved and precipitate formed
· Interpreting a balanced chemical
equation.
· Introduction
· Chemical properties of acids &bases
· what do acids have in common?
· What do bases have in common?
ACIDS, BASES · Do Acids produce Ions only in Aqueous
3 -
AND SALTS Solution?
· Reaction of Acid, Base with water
· Strength of Acid or Base - pH scale
· Importance of pH in everyday life, Salts
· Chemicals from common salt.
· Introduction
REFRACTION
· Refraction of light at curved surface
OF LIGHT AT
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CURVED · Lenses, Image formation -
SURFACES · Rules for Ray diagram

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No chapter lessons
· Images formed by the lenses
· Formula derived for thin lenses
· Focal length of lens depends on
surrounding medium
· Behaviour of certain light ray when they
are incident on a lense
· Rules to draw the ray diagram for image
formation by lense
· Magnification
· Lens maker formula.
· Introduction
· Least distance of distinct vision
· Structure of human Eye
HUMAN EYE · Myopia
AND · Hypermetropia Prism, Dispersion of light,
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COLOURFUL · Presbyopia Scattering of light.
WORLD · Dispersion and scattering of light
· Prism
· Dispersion of light
· Scattering of light
· Introduction
· Spectrum, Electromagnetic Spectrum
· Bohr’s model of Hydrogen atom and its
limitations, Quantum Numbers
STRUCTURE · Quantum mechanical model of an Atom
6 -
OF ATOM · Electronic Configuration of elements in
their atoms
· Aufbau Principal
· Paulis principal
· Hund’s Rule of maximum multiplicity
· Introduction
· Need for arrangement of elements in an
organized manner
CLASSIFICATI
· Doberieners Triads –Limitations,
ON OF
Newland’s law of Octaves
7 ELEMENTS – -
THE PERIODIC · Mendeleev’s Periodic Table (Periodic
TABLE law, Achievements &Limitations)
· Modern Periodic Table
· Properties of element and their trends in
groups and periods.
· Introduction
· Lewis symbol, Lewis dot structure
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CHEMICAL · Electronic theory of Valence by Lewis Total chapter
BONDING and Kossel

· Ionic and Covalent bonds:

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Topics in the syllabus
No chapter lessons
Ø Ionic bond – formation Ionic bond,
cation formation, anion formation
· The arrangement of Ions in Ion
compounds
Ø Covalent bond – shapes
· bond lengths and bond energies of
Covalent bonds
· Draw backs of electronic theory of
valance
· Valence bond
· VESPRT Theory
· Valence bond theory – Hybridization
· Molecules
· Properties of Ionic and Covalent
Compounds.
· Introduction
· Electric current, Potential difference
· How a battery or a cell works
· Ohms law and its limitations
ELECTRIC
· resistance, specific resistance -
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CURRENT · factors influencing resistance
· electric shock
· Electric Circuits, Kirchhoff’s laws
· Electric power
· Safety fuses
· Introduction, Dersted Experiment
· Magnetic field
· Lines of Magnetic field
· Magnetic flux - Magnetic flux density
· Magnetic field due to currents
ELECTROMAG · Magnetic force on moving charge and
10 current carrying wire Total chapter
NETISM
· Electric motor
· Electromagnetic induction
Ø Faraday’s law
Ø Lenz law
· Electric generator and alternating –
Direct Currents.
· Occurrence of Metals in nature
· Extractions of metals from the Ores –
activity series and related metallurgy
PRINCIPLES OF
11 · flow chart of steps involved in the -
METALLURGY extraction of metals from ore,
extraction of crude metals from the ore

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· Corrosion – Prevention of Corrosion
· Important Processes used inmetallurgy,
Flux, Furnace.
· Introduction, Carbon
· Promotion of an Electron
· Hybridization
· Allotropes of Carbon
· Versatile nature of carbon
· Hydrocarbons
· Bonding of carbon with other elements
· Functional groups in carbon compounds
CARBON AND
12 ITS · Isomerism Total chapter
COMPOUNDS · Homologous series
· Nomenclature of Carbon compounds
· Chemical properties of carbon
compounds
· Important carbon compounds
· Esterification reactions
· Soaps
Ø Saponification reaction
Ø Micelles- formation of Micelles

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 Class X – Biological Science
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Name of the chapter Topics in the syllabus Activity / project based lessons
No.
Nutrition · Autotrophic Nutrition
· Water and Photosynthesis
· Air and Photosynthesis
· Light and Photosynthesis
· Chlorophyll and Photosynthesis
· Where does Photosynthesis
take place?
1 · Mechanism of Photosynthesis -
· Nutrition in Human Beings
· Flow chart of human digestive
system
· Health aspects of the
alimentary canal
· Diseases due to malnutrition
· Vitamin deficiency diseases
Respiration · Discovery of gases and
respiration
· Steps in Respiration
· Breathing
· Pathway of air
· Epiglottis and passage of air
· Mechanism of respiration in
human beings
· Gaseous Exchange (alveoli to
capillaries)
· Transportation of gases
2 -
· Gaseous exchange (capillaries
to cells and back)
· Cellular respiration
· Anaerobic respiration
· Fermentation
· Respiration versus combustion
· Evolution in gases exchanging
system
· Respiration in plants
· Photosynthesis versus
Respiration
Transportation · Introduction – Need of the
transport system in all living
beings
3 -
· Internal structure of the heart
· Blood vessels and circulation
· The cardiac cycle

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No.
· Single and double circulation
· Lymphatic system
· Blood Pressure (B.P.)
· Coagulation of blood
· How is water absorbed?
· The mechanism of water
movement in plants
· Transport of mineral salts
· Transport of materials in plants
Excretion · Introduction – Need of
excretion
· Excretion in Human Beings
· Excretory System in Human
being
1. Kidneys
Mechanism of urine formation
2. Ureters
3. Urinary bladder
· Micturition
4 -
· Composition of urine
· Dialysis Machine (Artificial
kidney)
· Kidney transplantation
· Other pathways of excretion
(accessory excretory organs)
· Excretion in other organisms
· Excretion and release of
substances in plants
· Excretion Vs Secretion
Coordination · Introduction – Need for control
and coordination
· Responding to stimuli
· Integrating pathways - nervous
coordination
· Structure of nerve cell
· Central Nervous System (CNS)
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· Peripheral Nervous System
· Autonomous Nervous System
· Coordination without nerves
· Other chemical coordinators
· Control mechanisms in plants
· Tropic and nastic movements
in plants
Reproduction · Introduction
6 · Asexual mode of reproduction -
· Parthenogenesis

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No.
· Parthenocarpy
· Vegetative propagation
· Sexual reproduction
· Reproduction in placental
mammals - Human beings
· Male reproductive system
· Female reproductive system
· Child birth
· Sexual reproduction in
flowering plants
· Cell division and continuation
of life
· Cell division in Human beings
· Cell cycle
· Reproductive health
· Birth control methods
· Fighting against social ills
Coordination in life · Introduction – Recall life
processes processes
· Feeling hungry
· Taste is something connected
to the tongue and the palate
7 · Mouth - the munching machine Total chapter
· Travel of food through
oesophagus
· Stomach the mixer and digester
· Travel of food from the
stomach to the intestine
Heredity and evolution · Introduction
· New characters and variations
· Mendel and his experiments
· Reasons for selecting pea plant
· Procedure followed by Mendel
· Monohybrid cross
· Self pollination in F1-
Generation
· F2-Generation
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· Phenotype
· Genotype
· Dihybrid Cross
· Mendel’s Laws
· Parent to progeny
· How do traits get expressed?
· Sex determination in human
beings
· Evolution

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· Lamarckism
· Darwinism
· Speciation
· Evidences of evolution
· Evidences from embryology
· Evidences from fossils
· Human being - a moving
museum
Our environment · Introduction
· Food web
· Ecological pyramids
· The effects of human activities
on ecosystems
9 · Seasonal Bioaccumulation of Total chapter
heavy metals in fish
(cyprinuscarpio) of Edulabad
Water Reservoir (EBWR)
· Sparrow campaign
· Steps towards prevention
Natural Resources · Introduction
· Case I: Situation of water
resources Wanaparthy and
Vaddicherla of Jangaon District
· Water for all
· Case II: A Study of Kothapally
Village, an example of water
management effort
· Farmer-based interventions
· Wasteland development and
10 tree plantation Total chapter
· Natural resources around us
· Forest: an important renewable
resource
· Soil
· Biodiversity
· Fossil fuels
· Minerals
· Conservation- A vital concern
· Conservation groups

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 Class X – Social Studies
S. Activity/ project based
Name of the Chapter Topics in the syllabus
No. lessons
Part - I - Resources Development and Equity
Location; Geological background;
Major Relief Divisions; The
Himalayas; The middle or Lower
or Himachal Himalaya; The
1. India: Relief Features -
Shiwalik Range; The Indo-
Gangetic Plain; The Peninsular
Plateau; The Thar Desert; The
Coastal Plains; The Islands.
What Development Promises –
Different People, Different Goals;
Whose Development ?; Income
and Other Goals; How to Compare
2. Ideas of Development Different Countries or States; -
Income and other criteria; Public
Facilities; Human Development
Report; Development as progress
over time; Summing up.
Sectors of Economy; Gross
Domestic Product; How do we
estimate GDP?; Changes in the
importance of sectors - value of
goods and services
Production and produced and employment of
3. -
Employment people; Employment – the
working life in India; Organised
and unorganised sector
employment in India; Narasimha;
How to create more and better
conditions of employment?.
Climate and Weather; Factors
influencing climate and weather;
Latitude or distance from the
equator; Land water relationship;
Altitude; Upper atmospheric
4. Climate of India circulation; Seasons: Winter; -
Summer; Advancing monsoon;
Global Warming and Climate
Change; AGW and climate
change; Impact of climate change
on India.
Indian Rivers and Water The Himalayan Rivers; Indian
5. Peninsular Rivers; Water Use;
Resources
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S. Activity/ project based
Name of the Chapter Topics in the syllabus
No. lessons
river basin; Rational and equitable
Use of water - an example; Water
as common pool resource; In
conclusion.
Conducting a Survey; What does
the census show?; Literacy Rates
6. The Population (As per Census of 2011); Working Total chapter
population; Changing population
size; Population density.
What is a settlement?; How were
settlements begun?; Why do
settlements change?; What type of
places are formed as settlements?;
Indian settlements in hierarchy;
Urbanisation in India; Problems of
Urbanisation; Aerotropolis;
7. Settlements - Migrations Migration; Measure and classify Total chapter
migration patterns; Seasonal and
Temporary Migration; Rural to
Rural migration; Rural to Urban
migration; International migration;
What happens when people
migrate?; Monitering of
International Migration.
The story of Rampur village;
Farming in Rampur; Land and
other natural resources; Land
Distribution in Rampur;
Organisation of Production;
Labour for the Farm; Capital:
Arranging physical and working
Rampur: A Village capital; Surplus or Loss for the
8. Total chapter
Economy
farmer; Surplus and Capital for
Production; Dairy - The other
common activity; Small-scale
manufacturing activities in
Rampur; The shopkeepers of
Rampur; Transport: A fast
developing sector; Summing up.
Production across Countries;
Interlinking Production Across
9. Globalisation Countries; Foreign Trade and Total chapter
Integration of Market; MNCs and
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S. Activity/ project based
Name of the Chapter Topics in the syllabus
No. lessons
enabled Globalisation;
Technology; Liberalisation of
foreign trade and foreign
investment policy; Institutions of
Global Governance; World Trade
Organisation; Impact of
Globalisation in India; Small
producers: Compete or perish; The
Struggle for Fair Globalisation;
Other Issues; Conclusion.
Food Security of the Country;
Increasing foodgrain production;
Availability of Foodgrains;
Availability of Other Food Items;
10. Food Security Agricultural Diversification; -
Access to Food; Public
Distribution System (PDS); PDS
and Buffer Stock; Nutrition status;
Summing up.
Looking at development again…;
The Environment and
Development; People’s Rights
Sustainable
over The Environment; Chipko
11. Development with -
Movement; Towards Sustainable
Equity
Development with Equity;
Promoting the use of Millets; To
sum up.
Part - II - Contemporary World and India
Introduction; The Twentieth
Century; Causes for the World
Wars; Aggressive Nationalism;
Secret Alliances; Militarism;
Balkan politics; Immediate cause;
The world after the First World
War; The Treaty of Versailles,
1919; The Russian Socialist
World Between the Revolution (1917-1922); Women
12. in the February Revolution; The -
World Wars
October Revolution and the
Russian Countryside: Two Views;
Central Asia of the October
Revolution: Views; Rabindranath
Tagore wrote from Russia in 1930;
The Economic Depression–1929-
1939; Economic Depression in
Germany; Rise of Fascism,
Nazism; From Hitler’s speech;

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S. Activity/ project based
Name of the Chapter Topics in the syllabus
No. lessons
Indoctrination; Women under
Nazis; Resistance; Second World
War – 1939-1945; Consequences
of the World Wars; Enormous
human cost; Democratic principles
asserted; Change in balance of
power; Enfranchisement of
women; New International
organisations.
China: Two Different Phases; The
Rise of the Communist Party of
China; Establishing the New
Democracy: 1949-1954; Land
National Liberation
Reforms; Nigeria: Forming Unity
13. Movements in the Total chapter
against the Colonisers; British
Colonies
Colonialism and the Making of a
Nation; Independence and weak
democracy; Oil, environment and
politics.
Should the War be supported by
Indians? 1939-42; Who represents
the people of the country?; The
“Pakistan” Resolution; Who Will
National Movement in Make the British Quit India?; The
India–Partition & popular Upsurge -1946-48;
14. -
Independence: 1939- Muslim League and Congress -
1947 Negotiation for transfer of power;
A possible alternative to Partition;
Partition and migrations;
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi;
Integration of States.
Revisiting Indian Constitution;
The Making of Indian
Constitution; Reading Constituent
Assembly Debates; Parliamentary
The Making of
system; Federalism; Examples of
15. Independent India’s -
critiquing in Constituent Assembly
Constitution
debates; Examples of Debate on
Fundamental Rights; Constitution
and ‘social engineering’; The
Constitution Today.
Election System in India; The
Election Commission of India;
16. Election Process in India Autonomous status for Election -
Commission; The Chief Election
Commissioner; Functions of the
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S. Activity/ project based
Name of the Chapter Topics in the syllabus
No. lessons
parties in Elections; Elections -
The code of conduct; Key points
of Code of Conduct; Conducting
Rallies and Public Gatherings; On
the day of Polling; Ruling party at
the time of elections; Conduct of
elections at various levels; Voting
Mechanism; Vote to reject –
NOTA (None Of The Above); The
need for Electoral reforms; Postal
Ballot; Cancellation of Elections.
First General Elections; One Party
Dominance in Political System;
Demand for State Reorganisation;
Social and Economic Change;
Independent India (The Foreign Policy and Wars; The
17. -
First 30 years - 1947-77) Succession; Anti-Hindi Agitation;
Rise of Regional parties and
Regional movements; Bangladesh
War; The Left turn; Emergency;
Summing up.
Return of democracy after
Emergency; 1977 Elections and
the End of Emergency; Emergence
of Regional Aspirations; Andhra
Pradesh; Assam (Assom)
Movement; The Punjab Agitation;
Emerging Political New initiatives in the Rajiv
18. -
Trends 1977 to 2000 Gandhi Era; Rise of Communalism
and Corruption in High places;
The Era of Coalition politics; The
‘Left Front Government’ in West
Bengal; Political concerns in the
last decade of the 20th century;
Conclusion.
Aftermath of the World War II;
United Nations Organisation
(UNO); The Two Camps and the
Post - War World and Cold War (1945-1991); Non
19. Alignment Movement (NAM); Total chapter
India
West Asian Conflicts; The Growth
of Nationalism in the Middle East;
Peace Movements, Collapse of the
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Name of the Chapter Topics in the syllabus
No. lessons
War; India and its Neighbours;
India’s Relationship with China;
India’s relation with Pakistan;
India’s relation with Bangladesh;
India’s relation with Sri Lanka.
Civil Rights and Other
Movements of 1960s; Human
Rights Movements in the USSR;
Anti-nuclear and Anti-war
Movements; Globalisation,
marginalised people and
environmental movements; Bhopal
Social Movements in
20. Gas Disaster related movements; -
Our Times
Environmental movements;
Movements against dams on the
Narmada river; Movement of
Women for social justice and
human rights; Social mobilisation
on human rights; Some common
features across social movements.
The merger of Hyderabad state
with India; The Gentlemen’s
Agreement and the Formation of
the State of Andhra Pradesh; 1969
Agitation; Growing discontent in
The Movement for the Telangana; Movements in 1990s;
21. Formation of Telangana The Telangana Rashtra Samithi; -
State K. Chandrashekhar Rao’s Fast-
2009; In the process of achieving
Telangana; Withdrawal of the
Announcement; Telangana is
Achieved; Professor Jayashankar
(The Telangana ideologist).

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